Senior Java Developer

Recruiter:

Telebest

Job Ref:

CTO000317/gko

Date posted:

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

Salary:

Market

SUMMARY:
An amazing opportunity exists for a senior Java developer to join the development team at our large retail client based in Cape Town CBD.

POSITION INFO:

This team is responsible for Point of Service (POS) and other Store facing applications. The successful candidate would join a team that strives to deliver sound applications to ensure the seamless operations of our Store applications where emphasis is placed on continuously seeking improvement in development, processes, support and adhering to Agile practice.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Store Operations Development Team develops and supports the applications that are used in stores. Maintain a wide range of systems, mostly Java based, ranging from Swing Thick Client through to Light Weight Web-app and Highly Available JEE deployments.

Development Duties

Coding
Debugging and developer testing
Code review

Analysis

Attend user meetings to gather requirements, when necessary
Model High Level flows in UML and keeping them upto date

Supervisory duties

Unblocking developers
Contribute towards best practices
Ensure best practices are being followed
Leading stand-ups
Assisting developers who may need help

Releases

Maintaining the backlog for stories
Assisting with release planning

Support

Supporting stores as part of the 3^rd level of support - as this Team is responsible for Store applications, there is a degree of Operational support required (approximately 15% of the time).
Analysing support issues and logging bugs
Logging and following up Oracle Service Requests

QUALIFICATIONS

BSc in Information Systems or Relevant tertiary IT qualification (Essential)

EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE

3+ years Java Experience
Exposure to Agile Practices such as Daily Stand- up, Task Board, Product Backlog etc.
Continuous Build, Unit Testing, Source Control (SVN), Maven, Ant, Scripting
UML Modelling

XML, various APIs
SQL, preferably Oracle and PL/SQL (advantageous)
Java SE, Java EE, (Web Frameworks, EJB, JMS)
Application Server (Weblogic, Glassfish or Other)
Vaadin (advantageous)
Spring (advantageous)
Linux (advantageous)
Web Services (SOAP, REST) (advantageous)
Android (advantageous)
UML (advantageous)
Confluence \ JIRA (advantageous)

ADVANTAGEOUS

Data modeling experience
Previous experience in retail systems
Retail Experience

To apply for this awesome role, submit a full CV with complete skills matrix to garth.kearns@------

Please regard your application as unsuccessful should you not receive a response within 10 days.

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